100%. Metrics don't lie. I've A/B tested this a lot. Attention is a rare commodity and users will zone out and leave your product. I really dislike this fact
Metrics definitely lie, but generally in a different way to users/others. It's important to not let the metric become the goal, which is what often happens in a metric-heavy environment (certainly Google & FB, not sure about the rest of big tech).
Nothing wrong with grains as long as they aren't the processed GM'd ones you find everywhere. Bake wholegrain spelt bread at home and you can make that 70% of your diet no problem. People used to only eat bread before, they were fine
Grains are way too high in carbohydrates and even whole grains tend not to be complete proteins. Eating little but bread, whether it's wheat or spelt or something else, will malnourish you.
The impacts of health of processed grains is large. The impacts on health of GM'd grains is zero.
It affects everyone. It's always been the case, also in traditional advertising. As soon as a company gets rich it defaults to massive marketing (at a loss) to stay on top and drown the underdogs. That's why I think marketing spend should be capped by revenue by law. The current system stiffles competition
That would make it easy to implement: a simple payment receipt to a journalist who visited a "demo" would be enough to start fining them. Imagine the honesty of the press when it can't get bribed by the oligarchs anymore. Or imagine charities needing to court local producers instead of poison-cola for endorsements. It would be a different world!
I don't understand how nobody in the media is talking about this. The world accepts the US as the producer of currency, trades energy in dollars, etc. The US gets to print money for free, how is that bad for the US?
So far I can only see 2 reasons why Trump wants this:
1. He believes the US can force others to pay even more, via tariffs, and they will just accept it. No retaliatory tariffs. Kind of like how he says Greenland will be handed to the US no problem. Dishonest? Delusional? Bullyish?
2. The theory of him being a Russian asset is true, and this is the way for Russia to undermine the US while looking like Trump is rooting for the US. The real plan is for the world to drop the dollar. I don't like conspiracy theories but it just makes no sense otherwise
This is all clearly a consequence of not enough supply
Question for anyone that knows: how does it end? Will some landlords go bust and get bought by 1 or 2 mega corpos, and then rinse and repeat until it's a McDonald's/Burger King monopoly? Will all rentals be owned by a single entity? Are they already owned by one? I heard all these corps are ultimately owned by Blackrock
I am just trying to see what possibly even worse crisis will spawn from this crisis. Population levels are expected to decrease over the coming decades. Will that trigger a collapse in rents? Where will "greed" move to, what novel forms of collusion and exploitation will we suffer instead of it being all focused on rent and property?
Edit: I just realised that the shift may already be happening in the form of other basic necessity industries colluding: utilities, car insurance, "public" transport, food
Theft is theft, don't matter if it's irl or online. As a developer who periodically witnesses users spending hours trying to circumvent 1 dollar payments I think that the time has come for the piracy culture to end. And I used to do piracy too
Copyright infringement is not theft -- false comparison.
Also, have you considered how likely the people who are trying to get around your payment would be to pay up if they didn't find a way? If what you say about how long they try is true, I'd say the chance is extremely close to 0%.
That's the dirty secret of the anti-piracy campaigns of rightsholders. The "lost sales" narrative is a load of made-up horseradish, and they know it.
Am I wrong in thinking that this is very bad? What are the chances 0.0001% of people downloading your app won't try to come and murder you in your sleep? And considering the meager pay devs can gain from selling on app stores, how are we supposed to afford the high fence and guard dogs required to prevent attacks?
That's another £30/month where I live (cheapest option). I get that they (the gov't) want to know where we live, but surely people downloading an app have no business knowing this? Or is it either pay £30/month or risk being murdered in your sleep? Is this the result of the mailbox industry lobbying the EU or something? I am being sarcastic of course, just a bit upset tbh
If you don't have 30$ a month your not going to have a good time developing iOS apps. At a minimum you need to stay up to date with devices ( I'd argue upgrade every 2 years or so ).
